Today's Astrology Forecast | Thursday and Friday, July 15th - July 16th, 2021 - a dream for our home and family, old wounds, tense conversations, letting go of what we can't control

 

 

We wake on THURSDAY (EDT) to a void Moon - her last aspect late Wednesday night's trine to a retrograde Pluto. She is void until 10:32AM EDT when she moves into Libra. 

 

With the Moon in Libra we are nourished/nurtured through our relationships, partners, balance, fairness, peace, beauty, women. Her first aspect - a square to Mercury at 10:09PM EDT - this one is building all day, so might make us a bit mentally antsy and prone to disagreements/arguments. Stressful conversations/news/decisions around home, family, real estate, renovations, parents are possible.

This is also the day the Sun trines a retrograde Neptune at 23 degrees. Cancer/Pisces.

 

This will increase our sensitivity, empathy and need to connect with family/familial-feeling people/situations or maybe people in need. Kind and compassionate actions, even small ones, move us forward in gentle ways now. 

 

Our physical life-force (and home/family situations) can work smoothly with Neptunian themes - art, music, charity work, compassion, forgiveness, romance, spirituality, the ocean, escape, delusion, addiction, the things and people 'put away', healing, research, institutions. Our intuition is high - dreams (the kind we have when we are sleeping) colorful. Our ego attaches to spiritual pursuits/to art/to music. This would be an excellent time to make a vision board - maybe especially for a home renovation/new home/family goals. 

 

The potential downside with this energy is getting in over our heads or becoming too unbounded and because Neptune is retrograde, giving us a do-over, well, oops she did it again. Trines (brakes off) can take us from zero to sixty very quickly/smoothly, nothing is stopping us - they are that slippery slope your grandma warned you about.

 

Chiron stations retrograde at 12 degrees Aries. 

 

With Chiron strong at station maybe a wound/vulnerability is seen/felt. Chiron's retrograde says this wound is becoming our 'inner work' as we backtrack through (to re-vise, re-view, re-work) our masculine landmines - asserting ourselves, being able to take care of ourselves, being ourselves, being able to start/motivate ourselves, being able to fight when necessary. I like that this is happening during the Sun/Neptune Water Trine - our triggered woundings/hurts now more easily dissolve/fade. Family history is just foggy enough to be celebrated rather than fought over. The cosmos offers a little natural anesthetic until Chiron gets his backward groove on. Chiron will be retrograde until December 19th. 

On FRIDAY, the Moon, still in balance-seeking Libra, trines a retrograde Saturn at 6:32AM EDT. Good for dealing with old commitments/rules, authority, a mentor. Good for working on goals or long-term projects with a partner/another person early in the day. Discipline brings balance. Venus, the Moon's ruler, inconjuncts a retrograde Neptune at 23 degrees Pisces. So, the trine (brakes off) to stable Saturn and inconjunct (rock and a hard place) with Neptune tells us to stay grounded/practical. The dream must adjust to the reality. The Leo/Pisces inconjunct sometimes speaks of health issues (because Leo is Pisces 6th house) and both signs avoid dealing with them for different reasons, so take care of yourself now. 

A retrograde Pluto at 23 degrees Capricorn trines Ceres at 23 degrees Taurus. These two are ancient enemies (Ceres was Pluto's mother-in-law) who came to an arrangement. Another trine, so this is smooth, easily maneuvered. Pluto speaks of loss but this doesn't have to be something pried from our fingers. This is good energy for negotiating/accepting things we cannot change/season of life situations/adjustments regarding third party situations. The empty nest. Cappy/Taurus speaks of our finances/resources. An Earth Trine is practical/solid progress.

 

Hope something here is helpful.

xo all

Saturday is the Sun's opposition to a retrograde Pluto (we'll talk about this in the next post), this week's most challenging aspect and in play all week - this one clears the slate in some way for all of us .... collectively speaking we are talking about career or public life results/endings, turning points. Home vs work. Power struggles. With oppositions we can't deal with something ourselves so we create (unconsciously) a situation outside ourselves to force us to deal with it. And Pluto says deal we must ... keep in mind that trine to Ceres as a way through - the give and take/acceptance of what can't be changed ....

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Tuesday and Wednesday, July 13th -14th, 2021 - nourished by practicalities, avoiding criticism, a bold new chapter kicks off as Venus meets Mars in Leo, Pallas stations retrograde so the wise woman has one eye in the rearview mirror now

 

 

 

The Moon is in Virgo on TUESDAY - we are nourished/nurtured by being of service, dotting our i's and crossing our t's, a well organized closet, being helpful, being practical, being right/critical (ouch, let's avoid this one), taking care of our physical body, taking care of our pets, taking care of our employees/co-workers, prioritizing quality over quantity, doing good work, fixing something (yes, broken or not). 

 

The Moon will oppose Jupiter (in Pisces) at 7:00AM EDT and then go on to sextile Mercury (in Cancer) two hours later. Likely making up for Monday's meanderings we get down to work/make more solid plans. With Mercury in Cancer and the Moon in Virgo - the Moon and Mercury are in mutual reception and then we top that off with an opportunistic sextile between the two. More good conversation. Good for sales/commerce. Practicality/organization feels good/comfortable. 

This is also the day Venus meets up with Mars (19 degrees) in passionate/fiery Leo. The queen and the king are in the castle!

 

YES, this is as good as it sounds. 

 

Their last meeting was at 4 degrees Virgo back in August 2019, that reached a culmination/result (their opposition) in November 2020. Now, they start a new story, in Leo, something a bit more energetic, romantic, creative this time, I should think - what we want/desire and what we need to do to get what we want - together on the same page, and this time instead of it being a page in a medical journal or fix-it magazine (which is ok with me actually) - we get the steamy romance novel/adventure journal - BLOCKBUSTER.

 

Venus/Mars in Leo. We see what we want and we go about getting it. Courage. Passion. CONFIDENCE. Good for getting the girls and boys back together. Excellent for new creative projects/new chapters with children or romance. Our feminine and masculine energies are both working through our heart/our Sun.

 

The fly in the ointment is the Leo ego, and whether this is a big old horsefly, a nasty green biter or a docile housefly is up to us - our need for attention/appreciation that pulls us toward our white hot spotlight (a good thing), can also push our co-stars right off the stage. Leo is the last sign before we start needing other people, but this being Venus and Mars, we are probably going to need other people, I mean that is kind of the point here. If everyone is just snapping selfies we are going to waste the love/joy potential of this transit. The next time Venus and Mars meet will be in Leo's polarity sign of Aquarius (on that HOT Jupiter/Saturn degree - the world starts up again degree from the Winter Solstice), so now is the time to follow our heart (before we start following our head).

 

People with planets/points nearest 19 degrees Leo will feel this conjunction strongest, but everyone's Leo house and Venus/Mars energies are impacted. WE ALL GET A FRESH NEW START ... IN A CASTLE, yes a castle, why not our home is our castle, no? (keep in mind this is part of the Cancer New Moon story - how can we make our home our castle people? Is there space we aren't using - how can we use it - think about yesterday's Mercury/Jupiter. Is there something that needs to go/a mess that needs to be cleaned up? Think about the New Moon's Pluto opposition). 

 

Being a fiery fellow, Mars is strong in Leo, giving the upper hand to Martian maneuverings (as opposed to Venusian receptivity and ability to attract) which means taking action to get what we want, being brave, not being afraid to show-off a little, letting our heart rule the show. 

This will be a welcome change after their two-year story-line through Virgo (which was needed) - our health, work, the practical aspects of relationships. In Leo, things will be more fiery/risky. The potential for happy endings (well, at least happy beginnings) goes WAY UP.

Going to write a BIG post on this transit.

On WEDNESDAY, the Moon continues her journey through Virgo. She trines Uranus (we are more comfortable with change/unusual people and situation) at 6:24AM EDT, sextiles the Sun at 9:46PM EDT and opposes Neptune at 10:16PM EDT.

Her sextile to the Cancer Sun is this month's waxing sextile - Virgo/Cancer. Here is an opportunity - and there will be a smooth flow with this - to move our New Moon story (about family, home, safety, mothering) forward through Virgo - by being of service, being practical, taking care of our health/pets, doing quality work, getting organized. This Waxing Sextile is at the hot/evolving 22 degrees, so powerful ... and maybe self-sabotaging if poorly handled. Which it won't be. Stay practical.

This is also the day Pallas stations retrograde at 27 degrees Pisces. We have had alot of Piscean retrogrades the last couple years as 2000 plus years of the Age of Pisces comes to a close.

 

Now it's Pallas's turn to backpedal. 

Our wise warrior woman (as us) finds the answers are behind her now/in the past. What did we miss? Our instinct/dreams/illusions will be re-viewed/re-visited. Some dots we failed to connect the first time through/some divine wisdom/intuition we didn't act on - retrogrades offer us second chances. Some of our imaginative strategies/patterns (also escapist tendencies) will be re-examined. We'll get another look at our self-sabotaging habits and the draining people and situations that create the energy leaks that wear us down. She will be retrograde until November 2021 and will finally leave Pisces in February 2022. 

Tuesday and Wednesday both look pretty damn good. The Moon is waxing, so a great time for starting/initiating/growing.

 

xo all

 

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Monday, July 12th, 2021 - caring words, talking about the past, allowing faith/hope/optimism to take root, home feels like more, long void moon so plan for a casual start to the week

 

 

I will have to write dailies this week as Sunday got away from me! I will get them up the night before if possible.

The Moon is in loud/proud fun-loving and generous Leo on MONDAY. We are nurtured by tending to our heart/our desires, nourished through fun, children, our creative projects, the activities of our Sun sign, our natural white-hot spotlight. PEOPLE NEED ATTENTION. Underline this.

 

She meets up with Venus at 7:13AM EDT and then goes void off her meeting with Mars at 8:29AM EDT. This is easy going/creative/beneficial energy. She will be void until 4:30AM EDT on Tuesday, so Monday is a long void Moon day. Her meetings with Venus and Mars pull some lunar energy into tomorrow's new Mars/Venus story. Depending on the weather you may be able to see Venus and Mars in the night sky now, near the Waxing Crescent Moon!

From, the unfinished weekly:

MONDAY - Mercury @ 1 degrees Cancer trines a retrograde Jupiter in Pisces

Excellent energy for communications/words that feel good. A family/home situation EXPANDS. The brakes are off. We can see the BIG picture. This is a water trine, so can be emotional, connecting, maybe WET. Decisions/conversations, many centered around events and situation and people from the past, are in positive flow. The emotional language we are speaking/hearing with Mercury in Cancer allows for better connection - for situations to expand - for greater optimism/hopefulness/faith. Our words/their words are more tender. Conversations/contacts more fruitful. Call your mother. Call your sibling. Send the email. Connections are made. Our faith returns. We might hear good news, maybe around a home/real estate/family situation. With Jupiter retrograde this won't be a brand new thing, the situation will have its feet in the past, but the news/information/conversation will be new. The only potential fly in the ointment with Jupiter is the whole over-doing thing, so in this case, oversharing information/overstepping boundaries. Maybe talking about something that is too personal or being overly-mothering with someone where it's not appropriate. Cancer/Pisces is more receptive than reactive though, so most likely whatever we are sharing/whatever information comes in will be soothing and calming.

By Tuesday, the Moon will be in organized/practical Virgo where she will oppose Jupiter and sextile Mercury, so today's energy will shift into something more actionable/detail oriented. If we are glossing over the details on Monday, and we probably will be, Tuesday is when things start to get firmed up. Plans are made, etc. Tuesday is also the day Venus meets up with Mars in Leo. They last met in Leo back in 2015 when Venus was retrograde, so having them meeting now when they are both full-steam ahead and on equal footing in heart-centered Leo is a great gift to us - there are some potential pitfalls (as always my Mercury in Cappy will find them, lucky us) we will talk about tomorrow. Venus (as us) has a few challenges, adjustments to make, at the end of the week, but the first few days of this week are looking good. We even have a beautiful and magical Sun trine Neptune on Thursday. 

xo all

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Today's Astrology Forecast | Saturday, July 10th, 2021 - digging through the old crap, a void moon, as the sun goes down the lights come on

 

 

We are moving through the energy of yesterday's New Moon - the Moon continuing her monthly journey through her home sign of Cancer. 

 

She trines a retrograde Neptune at 7:10AM EDT (this is dreamy/emotional energy tinged with nostalgia/maybe some sadness) and goes void off her opposition with a retrograde Pluto at 12:10PM EDT (what do we keep/what has to go, dealing with an old loss/death, power struggles, secrets). The void might exacerbate the unsettled energy/extreme feelings of the Moon/Pluto and would will be a good time for purging/de-cluttering, delving into psychological studies, killing off a bad habit, bye-bye Felicia.

 

The Moon will be void until 8:21PM EDT when she moves into fiery Leo (see if you can feel the energy pick up) increasing our courage, energy, DESIRE to have a little fun. 

 

A summer Saturday night with a Leo Moon - we'll take it! Next week is looking good - I can't wait to write the weekly.

 

xo all

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the meaning of the New Moon in Cancer | July 9th, 2021 - a focus on home and family, making ourselves at home wherever we are, doing change in a whole new way, following our intuition, pressured to make the important things important

 

 

 

On Friday, July 9th, 2021, at 9:16PM EDT, the Cancer Moon meets up with the Cancer Sun at 18 degrees giving us a New Moon - our annual New Moon in Cancer. 

The Moon rules the sign of Cancer, so this is always an important New Moon. Last year we had two New Moons in Cancer (life determined to have all of us doubly focused on home and family) and for two years before that our New Moons in Cancer were also Solar Eclipses, so we are kind of settling down this year with just one regular New Moon! 

Cancer rules home, family, our roots, mother, mothering, our ancestry, real estate, country, patriotism, home businesses, family businesses, the root of the matter - our emotional security - and, of course, the theme of your personal natal chart's Cancer house -  this is where we get the NEW BEGINNING

 

So, we have the Moon and Sun meeting at 18 degrees Cancer. They are trining Neptune, sextiling Uranus, squaring Chiron and opposing Pluto. Also semi-sextiling 18 degrees Leo, where Venus will meet up with Mars in just a few days. Let's unpack the chart!

The Moon and Sun are conjunct. Together. On the same page. Home/family matters. We can see it and feel it. They trine a retrograde Neptune - this is applying so this 'coming home/fresh start' is enabling an old dream. For the smoothest flow, we are following our intuition. 

 

They are sextiling Uranus - this is separating (has already happened). The breakdown/breakthrough that has brought us to this New Moon has already happened. The CHANGE/need for freedom/need to be ourselves is now in an opportunistic angle to the fresh start energy. HOW we create change is changing (the heroine's journey vs the hero's journey). Uranus and the Moon (Aqua and Cancer) are in synergy - Uranus wants revolution and the Moon says ' well, maybe not just right now, I don't feel secure enough/safe enough yet", and the events of this lunation put these energies into a smooth flow. We are not heading out on some winner-take-all hero's journey this lunar cycle. We are heading within/home where the heroine's (think Harry Potter) connections and compassion enable another, more inclusive, kind of adventure. Maybe the new is also the safe!

The Moon and Sun are squaring Chiron - this one is separating, too - the pain has already happened/played out. It still hurts probably, because when Cancer hurts, Cancer HURTS, but we are also in some ways past it. Maybe because what's done is done.

 

The Moon and Sun are opposing a retrograde Pluto - applying, but wide and Pluto is retrograde, so the Plutonian loss/death/transformation can be said to be 'in play' here, but there is alot of road to be walked between here and there. Still, the fresh start coming from an old loss/death. Oppositions to Pluto can trigger jealousy, power plays, manipulation, but also access to real truth if we go deep enough.

 

Semi-sextile the degree Venus and Mars will start their own new cycle in a few days speaks of this New Moon's connection to that. The Moon/Sun adding their voice to the Venus/Mars story in egoic Leo - home, family, our need to care and be cared for, security, safety, our tribe - something here needed there. 

 

Cancer and Leo are neighbors so they bicker and they barbecue.

 

(we'll talk about the Venus/Mars in their own post!)

 

This Moon looks pretty uncomplicated (perfect for Cancer) with all aspects a little wide, although still emotional (being Cancer) and pressured (with that opposition to powerful Pluto). So it's collectively about family connections/staying closer to home/coming home to ourselves/making a new home - something we will be collectively experiencing over the next four weeks as this cycle plays out.

 

SETTING AFFIRMATIONS

 

This is a powerful energy to focus our intentions and make affirmations around general Cancer themes : mothers, motherhood, self-care, nurturing, home, family, real estate, home business, family business, food, breast health, stomach and digestive health, gut health, security ... AND around our Cancer natal/progressed house themes.

AFFIRMATION TIPS: get into a positive frame of mind, work in an uncluttered space - always make affirmations from a positive place (positive meaning both happy and certain) - write your affirmations down by hand in script, speak them out loud - then release your attention from them knowing your intention is known.  

 

Know these things are already yours.

xo all

Today's astrology Forecast | Thursday, July 8th, 2021 - the future reaches back and grabs us by the balls, again ... changes with our relationships, income, values and self-esteem

 

 

The Moon comes home to Cancer this morning, preparing us for the New Moon tomorrow. The skies are dark. We are nourished/nurtured through home/family, whatever feels like mom and apple pie. She trines (brakes off) a retrograde Jupiter at 1:09PM EDT. 

Mercury finally leaves his retrograde shadow and starts covering new ground. Here's our green light. We are moving forward. Near the end of his home sign of Gemini he inconjuncts Pluto (retrograde) in Capricorn and makes his third (of three) square to Vesta, still working on that problem, in Virgo. Mercury rules both Virgo and Gemini, so his move into a new degree today will help. And Pluto is trining (brakes off) Vesta, so we know way through is by going deeper in. Plutonian solutions are deep, transformative. Something has to go  - via merge/purge - so something else can be born. Focus/go deep (just watch for obsessing over a problem, the trine should allow the truth we need to rise up). 

 

We talked more about the Cappy/Gemini inconjunct and today's Venus/Uranus in the weekly HERE. 

This is also the day Venus in Leo - after her tangle with daddy Saturn - perfects her square to freedom-seeking, future-oriented Uranus (in Taurus). Fixed signs have been feeling this all year. This speaks of unexpected changes within relationships, finances, our self-esteem, values. The pressure to change. Uranus is answering to Venus, so even though this is a square - tension/frustration - the way through this can be loving/peaceful. Maybe an unexpected expense comes up/change in income or one partner is feeling the squeeze and needs greater freedom. Our self-esteem may demand we update something. Mars was in this pickle last week - our actions/passions creating change - so the changes now - with relationships, money, resources, our self-esteem - likely connect to that.

 

The opposition to Saturn can make changes sticky and de-stabilizing, so we want to be sure we know what we are doing with important changes (if we have some say here and the opposition to Saturn and inconjunct to Pluto says we might not) - as sure as we can be anyway. Mercury is helping. So are Vesta and Pluto. Venus in Leo must shine/follow her heart. A fixed square tells us stuck situations need to shift and gives us the impetus to change via our back against the wall. Just be cautious with anything that suddenly seems like a good idea if you've never thought about it before. Big moves made because we aren't getting enough attention or aren't feeling appreciated may not bring us what we are seeking. Changes are here/coming, but the Earth trines are pulling in some practicality. Tossing the baby with the bathwater isn't often necessary and now we have a screaming baby. 

 

Mercury (our thinking, ideas, planning) is past his confusing square to Neptune and covering NEW ground. The Uranian squares of the past few weeks (and all year really) with more to follow over the next few weeks - no one will miss their train, don't worry! -  are opening portals that LINE US UP WITH THE FUTURE. Keep in mind our collective North Node of Fate on Gemini - stay flexible, ask yourself "how else can I see this?" - this will help. Right now, the Moon is dark in her home sign, coming off her meeting with Mercury and applying to her trine to Jupiter retrograde. Our old faith/hope/that gold we missed our last time through here can be found in the darkness/the stillness. 

 

The New Moon in Cancer tomorrow night will be healing/soothing. 

 

Our future is so bright it burns my eyes.

 

xo all 

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